Word: dae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...associate in East Asian Legal Studies at the Law School who has been involved in South Korean politics, said the U.S. could have made a difference in both the military backlash which followed last spring's student uprisings at Kwangehu and the arrest and sentencing of opposition leader Kim Dae Jung...
...confessions," which the defendants repudiated, testifying that they had been extracted by torture. Thus when the four generals of the military tribunal in Seoul pronounced their verdict last week at the end of the month-long trial, it was a grim, foregone conclusion: South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, 54, was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government and sentenced to death by hanging. His 23 codefendants, a group of Christian ministers, university professors and students, were given prison terms ranging from two to 20 years...
...empty quality, immaculately clean with none of the characteristic academic bric-a-brac littering his desk. His one luxury in the spartan setting is a little tea kettle. He eagerly keeps track of world events, and asks most of his visitors if they think prominent South Korean dissident Kim Dae-Jung "will swing"--a euphemism which even seeps into his speech when he refers to himself. He takes phone calls with an effusive charm and unusual passion. "That was another one of my friends--calling from San Francisco. Everyone I know who can afford it is fleeing the country...
PRESIDENT CARTER would have us believe his foreign policy is at least partly predicated on support of human rights. But American reaction to the sentencing to death of prominent dissident Kim Dae Jung--who nearly became head of state in the last democratic elections held in South Korea--indicates that those who believe in realpolitik are prevailing at the expense of those who feel there can be at least a semblance of morality in U.S. foreign policy...
...unpopular side of Chun's populism has been his unflinching use of repressive measures against opponents. Kim Dae Jung, 54, the vocal opposition leader, is currently being tried for sedition, a charge that the U.S. State Department calls farfetched. Another former rival, Kim Jong Pil, 54, onetime Prime Minister and head of the ruling Democratic Republican Party, is recuperating from 46 days of detention and grilling by the military. Still under house arrest is Kim Young Sam, 52, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, who has renounced politics altogether. Chun has also imposed rigid military censorship...